Poem Tryouts: Fresh Start

05May

7:49 a.m. — Atlanta

listening to Another One Bites the Dust by Queen — that’ll get your blood going, although typing to the beat doesn’t quite work

Well, hello, everyone. I opened this page and couldn’t remember what to do, for a moment. It’s not so much the length of time, as that combined with the intense focus on something else for thirty days. I have missed my regular routine. Many, many, of you participated in the month-long celebration of poetry and might be feeling a little brain shock. Let’s start easy. We started in a similar way last year and I rather like it.

1] Is there a prompt from the past month that you would love to have written without constraints of any kind? Or, one that you think you can rewrite much better, given a couple of days?

2] Another possibility is a prompt that you saw and didn’t get to. There were a number of sites that posted prompts every day and only a couple of insane people who tried them all [you know who you are]. Did you see one on someone’s site, thought ‘Oooh!’ and that was the last you thought of it as you sped by? So, go back, find it and write.

3] Is there an idea you had based on one of the prompts but that you were not able to get to during the month? Here’s your chance.

4] If you did not participate in writing a poem a day, all three of the above can be adapted. Have at it.

Choose one of these and write ‘awesome’. Whichever you choose, let us know the original prompt. If your poem is radically different, brand new, even, give us the other poem. When you are done and posted, leave a link in comments below [fyi, new folks].

I will see you Thursday for links; Friday for the week’s prompt roundup; and next Tuesday for another of my prompts.

27 responses to “Poem Tryouts: Fresh Start”

I don’t think this is quite what you had in mind (try reading it backwards)! The last Napowrimo prompt (which I didn’t do) was to write a poem from end to beginning. I sourced my Napo prompts from all over the place.

I hope it makes you laugh.
Here it is in idiocy
and so I have to try.
but Margo Roby says I must
and lacking in the craft.
against the rules of poesy
seems a trifle daft
to write a poem backwards

Hello!! I’ve missed your talk – our talks – Margo…and I missed out on a LOT of your poetry this month as well…so it seems to go. Good thing I have some time to catch up. But not tonight…I had a stick talk directly to the white of my eyeball…I was lopping dead stuff and a branch went behind my glasses…I think I’ll be fine but screen time is making it ache soooo…guess I better be good and sleep…let it heal. ;( That’s me closing one eye…sorry for the huge novel…I’ve been a little wonky today – the pruning therapy helped though overall…satisfying.

I hope you’ve been well…a round of applause to you for your productive poetry month, Margo! :)’s

I’m agreeing with you…both good, I think, too and the eye is much, much better today…SO glad and thank you, too for the suggestion…I told myself that if I woke up and it was worse that I’d head straight for the docs for an ointment…can’t mess around with the eyes! 🙂 I hope you’ve had a pleasant day – it’s been way beautiful here.